*OINIE — XAPAAPIOI 185 



<t>ay=. (]\ISS. have c^cov^, 6S>v^, Aid. and Camus 4>mi^, Schn. 7t<^v$. 

 TTcouy^ in Anton. Lib. c. 5 ; Et. M.) 

 A bird of the Heron kind ; supposed to be a name for the Bittern, 

 but equally applicable to the Common Heron. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 18, 617 01 /xeV ovv epooBiol tovtov ^lovai top rponov, 17 Se 

 KaKovnevr] (j)a>v^ 'l8ioi/ i)(ei Trpos raWa' /xtiXtcrra yap icrriv 6(pda\po(Bapos 

 TQiv opvidcou. TToXtpios Sf Trj apTvr], Koi yap (Kfiurj 6/xoiO(3ioro?. 



Boios ap. Anton. Lib. 1. C. 17 8e BovXls eyevero navy^, kol avrrj rpocprjv 

 edtoKev 6 Zevs ixrjdif e'/c yrjs (pvopevov, dWa fadUiv 6cf)da\povi l)(6uos 'i opviaos 

 ^ o(pe(os, OTi epeWeu AlyvTTTiov tov naidos d(f)e\eadai Tcis o\l/eis. Etym. M. 

 Il(j)vyyes, a'l aWviai, al KXride'iaai jBovyyes, napa. ti)v ^orjv Ka\ ivyr]v, 



XAAKIAIKO'I- eldos dXeKrpvoi'os, Hcsvch. Vide S. V. dXeKTpuwi', p. 24. 



XAAKl'Z. Vide supra, s. v. KufjuvSis. 



XAPAAPIO'I. A bird conjectured to be the Thick-knee or Norfolk 

 Plover, Charadrms ocdicnemus, L., Ocdicncnms crepitans, auctt. ; 

 so identified by Gesner, followed by Sundevall, Aubert and 

 Wimmer, &c.. IMod. Gk. TovpXiSa (Erh.). Applied by the 

 LXX. to Heb. nsJN*. The derivation from x«/J"S/3a is more 

 than doubtful. 



Ar. Av. 265 es Tr]v Xoxprjv | e'ju/3ay eVco^f, ;^npaSpioi' ptpovfifPOi : ib. 1 14I 

 ot )(^apa8piol Ka\ raWa TTordpC bpvia. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b, mentioned with Xapor, KfTT(f)os, a'ldvta. Ib. 

 ix. 11,615 Tcis 8' olKijaeis 01 pev nepl ras X'^P'^'^P'^^ '^'^'- X'JP'V^^ TTOiovvrai 

 Ka\ TTiTpas, olov 6 KaXovpfvos ^"P^^P'o^' ^'o"'"' ^' o X'^P'^^P'^'^ '^"'' ''"')'' XP""" 

 Ka\ Tr]V (pcuvrjv (paiJXoi, (^alvtrai 8e vvKTiop, I'jpepas 8' a7roStfipa(rKfi. 



Proverb, x^po^pi^o^ l^i-of t^") of a glutton, Plat. Gorg. 494 B (ubi Schol. 

 opvLS Tis oj a/Lio Tcp iaQUiv eKKpiuei). 



Is killed by aa-(paXTOs, Ael. vi. 46. TriTrrei x^P^Sp'^f Tcrdvov crTrnVa?-, 

 Phile, De An. Pr. 673. 



According to Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. xv, Agron is metamorphosed 

 into the bird xapaSptoy, the other characters in the story turning into 

 various other nocturnal birds. 



The sight of it is said to cure the jaundice, the bird catching it itself 

 through the eyes ; hence dn oar pecker ai tovs iKTepiavrai, Ka\ ra oppara 

 (TvyKXeiaas e'x^i. [From which we may conjecture that the experiment 

 has never been fairly tried. W. H. T.] Plut. Symp. ii. 681 c, Ael. 

 xvii. 13. See also Suidas (and Schol. in Ar. Av. 267) Xapa8pi6s. 

 oppeo}/, fli ov dTTojiXe'^avTfs, as Xdyor, ot iKTepiavTfs paov airaXXaTTOvrai' 

 oOfv Kal dTTOKpvnTovcriv ai'Tovs 01 TTnrpda-KOVTfS, Lva pi] ■npoiKa u)(p(Xu)VTai 01 

 Kafivovres, " Kai p')v KaXdnreL, pu>v xopaSpiof nepvas ]" ovrcus iTrnSn/a^. 

 Kal napoLpia ivTevdev, Xapa8pi6v pipovpevos, enl tuiu dnoKpvmopevuiv, 



